Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever is a 2001 box set compilation album of the music of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.[1]

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever
Box set by
Released2001 (2001)
GenreMusical theatre
LabelPolydor

Released in 2001 and comprising five discs in total, the album's first three discs feature a selection of between three and five tracks from each of Lloyd Webber's musicals to date, roughly in chronological order.[2] The fourth disc, entitled Hits & More, features tracks that were released as singles, and the fifth disc, The Vaults, features obscure and previously unreleased tracks.[1]

The discs are contained in a hardback book, with copious notes on the recordings and their parent shows.

The tracks' lyricists include Tim Rice, Don Black, Richard Stilgoe, Charles Hart, Alan Ayckbourn, Christopher Hampton, Jim Steinman, Ben Elton and the poet T. S. Eliot.

Tracklisting

Disc One

Track # Track Artist Parent Show
1 Overture Jesus Christ Superstar
2 Everything's Alright Yvonne Elliman / Murray Head / Ian Gillan
3 I Don't Know How to Love Him Yvonne Elliman
4 Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) Steve Balsamo
5 Superstar Murray Head with the Trinidad Singers
6 Oh What a Circus / Sing You Fools Antonio Banderas Evita
7 I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You Elaine Paige / Joss Ackland
8 Another Suitcase in Another Hall Barbara Dickson
9 Don't Cry for Me Argentina Julie Covington
10 High Flying, Adored Mandy Patinkin / Patti LuPone
11 The Jellicle Ball Cats
12 Memory Elaine Paige
13 Gus: The Theatre Cat Susan Jane Tanner / John Mills
14 Mr Mistoffelees Paul Nicholas
15 Take That Look Off Your Face Marti Webb Song and Dance
16 Tell Me on a Sunday Marti Webb
17 Unexpected Song Sarah Brightman
18 Nothing Like You've Ever Known Sarah Brightman
19 Introduction
20 Variations 1-4

Disc Two

Track # Track Artist Parent Show
1 Starlight Express El Debarge Starlight Express
2 Crazy Greg Ellis / Reva Rice / Caron Cardelle / Samantha Lane / Voyd
3 Next Time You Fall in Love Reva Rice / Greg Ellis
4 I Am the Starlight Lon Satton / Ray Shell
5 Light at the End of the Tunnel
6 Hosanna Plácido Domingo Requiem
7 Pie Jesu Sarah Brightman / Paul Miles-Kingston
8 The Phantom of the Opera Michael Crawford / Sarah Brightman The Phantom of the Opera
9 The Music of the Night Michael Crawford
10 All I Ask of You Sarah Brightman / Steve Barton
11 Entr'acte
12 Masquerade
13 Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again Sarah Brightman
14 Aspects of Aspects Orchester der Vereinigten Buehnen Wien Aspects of Love
15 Love Changes Everything Michael Ball
16 Seeing is Believing Michael Ball / Ann Crumb
17 The First Man You Remember Kevin Colson / Diana Morrison
18 Anything But Lonely Sarah Brightman
19 Chanson D'Enfance Sarah Brightman

Disc Three

Track # Track Artist Parent Show
1 Any Dream Will Do Jason Donovan Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2 Joseph's Coat Maria Friedman / Richard Attenborough / Donny Osmond
3 Close Every Door Donny Osmond
4 Travel Hopefully John Scherer / Martin Jarvis / Don Stephenson By Jeeves
5 When Love Arrives Steven Pacey / Diana Morrison
6 Half a Moment Sarah Brightman
7 With One Look Glenn Close Sunset Boulevard
8 New Ways to Dream Glenn Close / Alan Campbell
9 The Perfect Year Patti LuPone / Kevin Anderson
10 Sunset Boulevard Alan Campbell
11 As If We Never Said Goodbye Glenn Close
12 Whistle Down the Wind James Graeme / Lottie Mayor Whistle Down the Wind
13 Cold The Everly Brothers
14 No Matter What
15 The Nature of the Beast Marcus Lovett / Lottie Mayor
16 Overture The Beautiful Game
17 The Beautiful Game
18 Our Kind of Love Hannah Waddingham
19 Don't Like You Josie Walker / David Shannon
20 Let Us Love in Peace Josie Walker / Omagh Youth Community Choir

Disc Four: Hits & More

Track # Track Artist
1 Oh What a Circus David Essex
2 Memory Betty Buckley
3 The Phantom of the Opera Sarah Brightman / Steve Harley
4 All I Ask of You Sarah Brightman / Cliff Richard
5 Love Changes Everything Michael Ball
6 Any Dream Will Do Donny Osmond
7 Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life) Sarah Brightman / Jose Carreras
8 As If We Never Said Goodbye Barbra Streisand
9 The Perfect Year Dina Carroll
10 With One Look Petula Clark
11 You Must Love Me Madonna
12 The Heart is Slow to Learn Kiri Te Kanawa
13 A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste The Metal Philharmonic Orchestra
14 Whistle Down the Wind Tina Arena
15 No Matter What Boyzone
16 The Vaults of Heaven Tom Jones with Sounds of Blackness
17 Try Not to Be Afraid Boy George
18 Pie Jesu Charlotte Church

Disc Five

Track # Track Artist
1 Make Believe Love Wes Sands
2 Down Thru' Summer Ross Hannaman
3 I'll Give All My Love to Southend Ross Hannaman
4 Believe Me I Will Sacha Distel
5 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

(1969 Radio Luxembourg Commercial)

Joseph Consortium / Pete Murray
6 Try It and See Rita Pavone
7 Come Back Richard Your Country Needs You Tim Rice and the Webber Group
8 Goodbye Seattle Paul Raven
9 John 19:41 The Andrew Lloyd Webber Orchestra
10 What A Line to Go Out On Yvonne Elliman
11 Disillusion Me Gary Bond
12 The Ballad of Robert and Peter Tim Rice
13 Christmas Dream Maynard Williams
14 It's Only Your Lover Returning / All Through My Crazy and Wild Days /

Don't Cry for Me Argentina

Julie Covington
15 Magdalena Tony Christie
16 Buenos Aires The Rioja Rockers
17 Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber
18 Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

(Live at the Sydmonton Festival 1980)

Gemma Craven
19 I Could Have Given You More Petula Clark
20 I've Been in Love Too Long Marti Webb
21 Benedicite The Stephen Hill Singers

Personnel

Compiled and produced by Tristram Penna

Cover drawing by Ronnie Wood

Booklet notes by James Inverne

Special thanks: Don Black, Brian Drutman, Tracey Connolly, Richard Gates, Paul Jones, George McManus, Denis McNamara, Tim Rice, Dave Robinson, Paul Tucker and Clare Wood

Digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Chris Blair and Tristram Penna

Designed by Dewynters

References

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